Category: Events

The Townsville City Council Recovery Roadshow is coming to Paluma on Saturday!

Designed for communities impacted by severe weather and geographical isolation, the roadshow is an opportunity for residents to connect with local services, access practical support, and learn about resources available to help them recover and build resilience.

October 17, 10am -1:00pm

On the day, enjoy:

  • Live music from The Hidden Valley Honky Tonker
  • Bubbles, temporary tattoos, face painting and colouring-in with Marvellous Miss Mary
  • Free sausage sizzle provided by the Paluma District and Community Association
  • Opportunity to complete your own “Connect and Collect Passport” and win a prize
  • Stalls from Red Cross, Townsville Health and Hospital Service, SES, Queensland Police Service, Volunteering North Queensland, Townsville City Council, Hinchinbrook Shire Council, and many more!

Come along to connect with your community and build your severe weather recovery network. Because connected communities recover better.”

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to give me a call 😊

Kind Regards,

Hannah Billington

Community Recovery & Resilience Officer
Infrastructure & Operations
M  0461 377 566    E  Hannah.billington@townsville.qld.gov.au  

Local Disaster Coordination Centre 113-123 Dalrymple Road Garbutt, Townsville QLD 4810

PDCA Photo Exhibition – entries closing soon

Paluma and District Photo Exhibition 2026 is well underway

It’s just under 3 weeks to go before the photo upload period is closed at midnight on October 25th. We have some truly amazing photos being exhibited that you must see if you haven’t already had a squiz. The photo gallery site can be accessed here for viewing but more importantly for offering support to our budding photographers with such hidden talents!

For those of you contemplating an entry or two, I encourage you to seize the moment as the deadline will be here before you know it!  If you’ve forgotten the ‘loose’ rules around photo entry they can be found here.

If you have any further questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to me on sonyab360@gmail.com or Jamie on jamieo53@hotmail.com (0408 710 030) for technical issues on the website functionality.

Happy snapping!

Son

Paluma Spring Markets a great success

Another successful market day was held last Sunday at Paluma. The weather
was perfect and it appears that people are getting used to the escort
travel system as we had good numbers of people coming through the door.
We had a full house of stall holders and our very own Hidden Valley
Honky Tonker, aka Stefan, who provided live music from under our gazebo
on the lawn in the courtyard. The BBQ was busy all morning, cooking,
selling and serving 200 sausages, plus BBQ’d pineapple, onions, choice
of sauces and soft drinks. A special thanks to Jamie Oliver, who handled,
without glitch, EFT transactions totalling $365 for the day. The pantry
hamper raffle was won by Christine Martin from Bluewater, second prize,
donated by Helen Hulme,  going to Charlie Allen.

As well as being a great fund-raiser for the Paluma & District Community
Association, raising over $1000 it was great to see the markets as a
great community event, bringing large numbers of residents together, all
doing their bit to make this event the success it is, from volunteering
to man the BBQ, man the PDCA run stalls, donate lots of wonderful cakes
and other baked items, donating sales profits to the association, run
their own stalls and just coming along on the morning and spending some
money at the various stalls, truly a great effort by everybody
contributing in their own way to make it all worthwhile.

Wilfred Karnoll

Call for Volunteers – Paluma Spring Market

Volunteers are needed for the Paluma Spring Market on Sunday, 4th
October, from 9am to 1pm. There are many ways anybody and everybody can
get involved, help out and make the event a success

We need people to:

  • cook, serve and collect money for sausages and soft drinks.
  • Make and sell tea, coffee and cakes and biscuits.
  • Man a PDCA stall or run their own stall.
  • Make sure we have enough supplies for the BBQ.
  • Sell raffle tickets.
  • Bake some biscuits, cakes or pastries to donate for sale at the PDCA stall.
  • Donate some surplus books for sale at the book stall, run by the Paluma
    Rural Fire Brigade.

Come along on the day and support the event and the stall holders that
come a long way to support our small village.

Tell and invite your friends and family to come up the mountain for the
day or the whole long weekend.

If you are able to help in any way please contact Wilfred, the event
organizer, on 0447 822 626, for the finer details and job description or
any suggestions you may have.

Photo exhibition is now live

It’s time to upload those photos for the Paluma & District Photo Exhibition 2026 ………don’t be shy!

The online gallery page can be found here:  https://paluma.org/contest-gallery-2026 and is available for everyone to view.

The 1st of September 2026 is the official start of the Paluma & District Photo Exhibition 2026. Time to start uploading those photos you’ve been taking or digging up.

Image courtesy of Nano Banana

Just a reiteration of the photo exhibition ‘boundaries’ for participation.

  • Photos are to be taken in / or be from roughly, the area covering Bluewater to Jourama, and Mutarnee to Zig Zag (ie. Paluma & District).
  • Photos submitted can be of any age.
  • Entry of photos and voting is open to residents and their family and friends as well as former residents only.
  • The photo entrant must be either the copyright holder or be entering on behalf of the copyright holder whose name is entered for exhibition purposes.
  • Photos submitted should be of interest to the community.
  • All uploaded photos should conform to social norms as they are applied to most social media platforms.  If an image would be banned from Facebook or Instagram it will be removed from the upload site.

We’d love to read some commentary about your photo as well if you’re keen to share, which can be done at the same time as uploading a photo. Note the photo upload period will close at midnight on 25th October 2026.

To upload a photo, comment on a photo, or vote for a photo, you will need to register once using your name and email address. Voting on the uploaded photos will commence on the 26th October 2026 and finish at midnight on 15th November 2026. When voting, you can assign 1-4 stars for each photo uploaded. The photo gallery is now open for commenting on any photo.

Should you have any questions about the photo exhibition, you can email Sonya Bryce on sonyab360@gmail.com.

For technical issues on the website functionality you can email or message Jamie on jamieo53@hotmail.com (0408 710 030)

Look forward to seeing your pics!

Son